Very nice - added feature suggestion

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Ex glider pilot

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Aug 12, 2010, 6:46:05 AM8/12/10
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I was just going to say I think its really smooth.... Be nice to see
it working in IE (not IE 6!) and FF. Also: if when you hovered over a
line if a legend cound pop up for the nearest curve...?

Good work

Joe Walnes

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Aug 12, 2010, 11:12:10 AM8/12/10
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Thanks for feedback.

FF support should be straightforward.. just haven't had time to look
into it. Always open to patches :)

I tried it in IE8 using ExCanvas and it wasn't very smooth. I can see
3 options for IE support:
1. Don't do it (or at least wait for IE9 which has a good Canvas implementation)
2. Use ExCanvas, and accept that the charts aren't as smooth (jerky
charts may be better than no charts)
3. Investigate using another technology to render in IE (e.g. go
direct to VML, which is what ExCanvas does, but we'd get lower level
control).

Ex glider pilot

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Aug 12, 2010, 3:26:35 PM8/12/10
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On the basis that most? poeple who use IE may end up with the update,
I'd probably be inclined to wait. It easy enough to have a "View in
Opera, Chrome, FF, IE9 etc for better results" pop up if you detect
they are not using the most suitable browser. Just my 2p

On Aug 12, 4:12 pm, Joe Walnes <j...@walnes.com> wrote:
> Thanks for feedback.
>
> FF support should be straightforward.. just haven't had time to look
> into it. Always open to patches :)
>
> I tried it in IE8 using ExCanvas and it wasn't very smooth. I can see
> 3 options for IE support:
> 1. Don't do it (or at least wait for IE9 which has a good Canvas implementation)
> 2. Use ExCanvas, and accept that the charts aren't as smooth (jerky
> charts may be better than no charts)
> 3. Investigate using another technology to render in IE (e.g. go
> direct to VML, which is what ExCanvas does, but we'd get lower level
> control).
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ex glider pilot <ian.pett...@ava.co.uk> wrote:> I was just going to say I think its really smooth.... Be nice to see
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